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| behavior patterns or mental processes that cause serious personal suffering or interfere with a person's ability to cope with everyday life |
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| mental disorders in a specific culture |
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| general state of dread or uneasiness that occurs in response to a vague or imagined danger |
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| most common phobia, persistent excessive or irrational fear of a particular object or situation (as in your phobia of playing singles at ECCs :)) |
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| fear of social situations |
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| short period of intense fear or discomfort (shortness of breath, dizziness, rapid heart rate, trembling, shaking, choking, nausea, |
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| fear of being in places or situations in which escape is difficult |
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| unwanted thoughts, ideas, or mental images that occur over and over again |
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| repetitive ritual behaviors often involving checking, or cleaning something |
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| post-traumatic stress disorder |
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| feelings of anxiety that are caused by an experience so traumatic that it would produce stress in most people |
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| separation of certain personality components or mental processes from conscious thought |
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| feelings of detachment from one's mental processes or body |
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| expression of psychological distress through physical symptoms (like being depressed but having your body become paralyzed) |
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| helplessness, hopelessness, worthlessness, guilt or great sadness |
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| mood changes from depression to wild elation and back again |
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| extreme elation or hyperactivity |
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| 3 types - paranoid, disorganized, catatonic |
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| how typical a behavior is of people in general, whether the behavior is maladaptive, causes individual emotional discomfort or whether the behavior is socially acceptable |
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| behavior that impairs an individual's ability to function adequately in everyday life |
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| feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, worthlessness, guilt, and extreme sadness |
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| socially acceptable behavior |
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| behavior that violates a society's accepted norms |
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| In Malaysia, hypersensitivity to sudden fright, often with nonsense mimicking of others; trance-like behavior |
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| in middle east, shouting, laughing, head banging, or other inappropriate behavior that is believed to be caused by possession of the body by a spirit |
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| native americans in US, bad dreams, hallucinations, fainting, and other symptoms believed to be due to preoccupation with death and the dead |
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| in Korea, panic, depression, or other symptoms believed to be due to the suppression of anger |
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| In Latino groups in US and Caribbean, unhappiness and illness following a frightening event that is believed to cause the soul to leave the body |
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| In Mediterranean or elsewhere, sufferers, mostly children, are believed to be under the influence of an "evil eye" causing fitful sleep, crying, and sickness |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| GAD - excessive or unrealistic worry about life circumstances that lasts for at least 6 months |
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| obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| unwanted thoughts, ideas, or mental images that occur over and over again with compulsions (repetitive ritual behaviors often involving checking, or cleaning something) |
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| post traumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder |
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| sudden loss of memory usually following a traumatic event |
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| forgetting personal information and past events and suddenly relocating from home or work and taking on a new identity |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| 2 or more personalities in 1 person |
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| feelings of detachment from one's mental processes or body |
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| change in or loss of physical functioning in a major part of the body with no known medical explanation |
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| preoccupation with thoughts that one has a serious disease |
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most common - has at least 5 of these symptoms:
1 persistent depressed mood
2 loss of interest or pleasure in all activities
3 weight loss or gain due to changes in appetite
4 sleeping more or less than usual
5 speeding up or slowing down of emotional reactions
6 loss of energy
7 worthlessness or guilt
8 trouble concentrating and making decisions
9 thoughts of death or suicide |
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| delusions or hearing voices |
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| disorganized schizophrenia |
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| incoherent in thoughts and speech and disorganized in behavior |
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| disturbance in movement; people may hold unusual uncomfortable positions for long periods of time, even after their arms and legs swell and stiffen |
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| paranoid personality disorder |
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| schizoid personality disorder |
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| no interest in relationships with others |
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| antisocial personality disorder |
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| disregard for rights of others |
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| avoidant personality disorder |
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| people want relationships with others but can't because they fear disapproval of others |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
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